 August 25, 2013 - 12:07pm | Here is an image of a sathar soldier ready for battle. I drew this up and colored it in with Manga Studio 4 and a Wacom Bamboo tablet. I tried to stay true to the old comic art style used in the SF rulebooks and modules. What do you think?  |
 October 19, 2013 - 8:01pm | Sweeeeeet! I can't wait to see the creature. -iggy |
October 20, 2013 - 6:31am | Very cool. It is looking slightly to it's left, putting us just into it's sight. Everybody freeze! What can't you draw? -iggy |
October 20, 2013 - 7:03am | Can't do photo realism. Just don't have the patience for it (or perhaps the skill). Line art, I can do well, with the right materials and a little time. The software is really making it easy because I can visualize the piece in real time (like experiment with colors) and undo any step I don't like, working in layers. Pen and ink on paper is not so forgiving when it comes to mistakes or changes. |
October 20, 2013 - 7:25pm | I'll give the photo realism a pass. Your line art is great and the old school SF feel is all line art. Too much photo realistic SF art detracts from the old school SF feel. I like the use of robots in the yazirian piece. Nice to see machinery and tech folding in. Have you see any of Shadow Shacks hover bike art? http://starfrontiers.20m.com/photo.html -iggy |
 October 21, 2013 - 8:46pm | I have been out of it for a bit. I am VERY impressed with this art. That quickdeath should be a cover for the Frontier Explorer sometime. This is some of the best SF art I have seen. AnimuX you ROCK. |
December 29, 2013 - 6:58pm |  Your annual winter solstice festivities are nearly at an end, humans... |
 December 29, 2013 - 7:16pm | Beautiful! I'm planning on using the Yazirian one you posted in the upcoming issue of the Frontier Explorer. Ad Astra Per Ardua! My blog - Expanding Frontier Webmaster - The Star Frontiers Network & this site Founding Editor - The Frontier Explorer Magazine Managing Editor - The Star Frontiersman Magazine |
December 29, 2013 - 10:58pm | Thanks (everybody)! Looking forward to the next issue. :-D |
December 30, 2013 - 10:31am | Wow! Great job AnimuX. I see vrusk are very agressive negotiators. -iggy |
January 1, 2014 - 11:23pm | Thanks!! Here is a preview; my current work in progress is going to take some time to complete. You can maybe get an idea of how the software really helps. I just have the underdrawing and the beginning of the ink layer in this early stage of the drawing. By the time I'm done there will be tons of color layers and the overall composition may change slightly. :-)  |
 January 3, 2014 - 11:28am | Really awesome art. "Never fire a laser at a mirror." |
 January 3, 2014 - 11:43am | I'm always envous of people that can draw.... particularly when it comes to running games. ----------------------------------------------- |
January 12, 2014 - 2:30pm |  Here is a more detailed look at a Yazarian. :-) |
January 12, 2014 - 9:48pm | Dude! You make me jealous of your talent. -iggy |
January 13, 2014 - 11:22am | Beautiful. Do you mind if we use this one in the Frontier Explorer. I have an article needing a Yazirian picture and this one fits the tone of the article much better than the one of the yazirian smashing the robots. Ad Astra Per Ardua! My blog - Expanding Frontier Webmaster - The Star Frontiers Network & this site Founding Editor - The Frontier Explorer Magazine Managing Editor - The Star Frontiersman Magazine |
January 13, 2014 - 6:10pm | Thanks iggy! :) TerlObar: Please feel free to use the drawing in the next Frontier Explorer. Someone requested a Saurian. Back to the drawing (err..) tablet! |
January 26, 2014 - 12:45pm |  I don't really like the Sleestack-ish version of the Saurian races from DrMg103. Because they're supposed to be evolved from an iguana-like species, I like to think they more resemble reptiles than fish-men with bug eyes. ;-) This is what I think Saurians should look like. |
January 26, 2014 - 4:56pm | I so love it when "SF Fan Art" shows up in what's new after being quiet for a bit. That has good odds that there is new art from Animux. And.... I found a nice supprise when I clicked on SF Fan Art. It makes my day. -iggy |
 January 30, 2014 - 6:35pm | Had to skip sketch group tonight so this was a punt- something I've wanted to do for a while Royal Marines to the Rescue  I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 January 31, 2014 - 3:15am | Nice, Jedion. The helicopter and mountains look very real, as if drawn from a photo. Animux, I strongly disagree. Saurians are not supposed to be evolved from iguanas. I had never seen the Dragon magazine illustration you mention until this past year, and had never considered them to look like Sleestak. Did you read the article? It gives good descriptions of the four types, and none of them are like Sleestak. They are semi-aquatic mammals, and have gills. If that makes them "fish men", then so be it. Look at Jedion's Saurian pic for an example. This one just seems like an animal on its hind legs. Someone requested a good Saurian illustration, not your reinvention of what you think they should look like. It's fine if they look like iguanas in your game, but I think people wanted something more like what they expected to see, like your other illustrations. You didn't reinvent Yazirians or Vrusk. Don't reinvent Saurians please. I hated when they reinvented Godzilla for the 1998 movie. I thought it looked like crap, and not like Godzilla at all. I love Saurians, and don't want to see them mangled. Kind of reminds me of how Kim Eastland thought he needed to reinvent Star Frontiers... |
January 31, 2014 - 3:46am | I agree with the bulk of bossmoss' assessment of the saurians but I also like the new vision of the suarian, Animux should finish it, some may like it some wont. Someone might use it for a primitive race they are developing. plenty of room for new art. @ bossmoss: yeah I use a lot of photo reference in my drawing, even yazirians- will be draw from a pose of a human that happens to be a dynamic pose I like but I "yazirian-ize" it in the drawing. probably should spend some time studying primate photos for a good pose for a yazirian and see how that turns out. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
January 31, 2014 - 9:20am | I happen to like the new picture as well, whether others want to use it for Saurians or not. And that's the great thing about art, you're free to reintepret as you desire and people can take it or leave it. I agree that this one is different than the description and drawings in the Dragon article but I think that's okay as that is Animux's vision. Ad Astra Per Ardua! My blog - Expanding Frontier Webmaster - The Star Frontiers Network & this site Founding Editor - The Frontier Explorer Magazine Managing Editor - The Star Frontiersman Magazine |
January 31, 2014 - 12:27pm | I agree that Animux's drawing is well drawn, and that it could be used for a variety of possible aliens. In fact, my first thought when I saw it was that it looked more like a Thyrann than a Saurian, and I just might used it in my campaign as a picture of that alien. For those who aren't familiar with them, the Thyrann are intelligent alien reptiles from an old Star Frontiers website. Jedion, I thought that might be the case. It must be harder with Vrusk & Dralasites, I would imagine. When I show players what Yazirians look like, I have some pics of primate hands to show them. Anyway, keep up the good work. I often use your pics as reference material for my players. |
February 1, 2014 - 6:33pm | Oh wow! I didn't think that would stir up any controversy. @bossmoss I understand completely. I never played Saurian characters and therefore didn't get attached to the original imagining of them. I definitely get the desire to stick to canon when it comes to preserving Star Frontiers and good memories playing the game. I started with a much more conservative drawing but just wasn't happy with the progress. Here was the first attempt at a Saurian (unfinished):  Because I wasn't quite happy with the original, I looked to other inspiration for a second attempt. According to the Dragon Magazine in which they first appeared Saurians are bipedal reptilian humanoids. They are semi-aquatic creatures and have the gil-slit as an aquatic adaptation. I imagined that meant they were evolved from land animals that adapted to a marine environment over time and it made me think of amphibians or salamanders -- and from there to one of my favorite animals, Galapagos marine iguanas. The magazine article states they were related to an animal called a "land dragon" which also made me think of iguanas and even Komodo dragons and monitor lizards. The Kavak, from a grasslands land dragon. The Kamier from a swamp-dwelling land dragon. The Talsoi from forest and plains. The Vanar from jungles and rain forests. None of them were intended to be like fish-men and that factored into the more iguana-like impression I got. I'm not attempting to torch Star Frontiers canon though. ^_^ |
